Crimes Against Humanity Quotes - Page 3

• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Smoking, Humanity

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• We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a test for humanity and moral dignity. Because turning a blind eye to such horrible and shameful crimes means indulging terrorists and aggressors and violating high European values for which Ukrainians are suffering and dying.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Mean, Eye, Humanity

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• The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Years, Agriculture

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides. We have done and will continue to do our best to support the persistent implementation of the Genocide Convention. Genocide cannot concern only one people, because it is a crime against humanity.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  People, Support, Humanity

  Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, www.president.am. February 10, 2010.

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• If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Drama, Responsibility, Humanity

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• I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.

  Giles Smith

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

  George Carlin

  Humanity, Shenanigans, Crime

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• Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.

  Jean Ziegler

  Believe, Humanity, Way

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• I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  War, Believe, Priorities

  "Democratic Senator Urges White House to do More on Syria" by Ali Weinberg, abcnews.go.com. September 22, 2015.

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• As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of political leaders, and the lethal consequences of totalising ideologies.

  Richard A. Falk

  Political, Leader, Humanity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Arab Israeli Conflict, France, England

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Men, Live Free

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

  Simon Doonan

  Humanity, Crime, Dressings

  Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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